The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Compensation Scheme: Electing Participants) Regulations 2001

• F1“authorised contractual scheme” has the meaning given at section 237(3) of the Act;

• “authorised open-ended investment company” has the meaning given at section 237(3) of the Act;

• “authorised unit trust scheme” has the meaning given at section 237(3) of the Act;

• “branch”—

  1. (a)

     in relation to an investment firm, has the meaning given by Article 1.5 of the investor-compensation schemes directive;

  2. (b)

     in relation to a credit institution, has the meaning given by Article 1.5 of the deposit-guarantee schemes directive;

  3. (c)

     F2in relation to a relevant management company, has the meaning given by Article 1.5 of the investor-compensation schemes directive (as applied by F3Article 12.2 of the UCITS directive);

• “credit institution” has the meaning given by F4Article 4(1)(1) of the capital requirements regulation;

• “deposit-guarantee schemes directive” means Council and European Parliament Directive 94/19/EC on deposit-guarantee schemes M1;

• “depositor” has the same meaning as in the deposit-guarantee schemes directive;

• F5“ELTIF” means a UK AIF that has been authorised by the FCA as a European long-term investment fund under Article 6 of the ELTIF Regulation;

• “ELTIF Regulation” means Regulation (EU) No 2015/760 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29th April 2015 on European Long-term Investment Funds;

• “Financial Services Compensation Scheme” means the compensation scheme established pursuant to Part XV of the Act;

• “home State deposit-guarantee scheme” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a credit institution which is exempted by the EEA State in which that institution has its head office from the obligation to belong to a deposit-guarantee scheme by virtue of belonging to a system which protects the credit institution as mentioned in Article 3 of the deposit-guarantee schemes directive, that system; and

  2. (b)

     in all other cases, the deposit-guarantee scheme officially recognised by that EEA State for the purposes of Article 3.1 of the deposit-guarantee schemes directive;

• “home State investor-compensation scheme” means—

  1. (a)

     in relation to a credit institution which is exempted by the EEA State in which that institution has its head office from the obligation to belong to an investor-compensation scheme by virtue of Article 2.1 of the investor-compensation schemes directive (participation in a system that protects the credit institution), that system; and

  2. (b)

     in all other cases, the investor-compensation scheme officially recognised by that EEA State for the purposes of Article 2.1 of the investor-compensation schemes directive;

• F6“insurance intermediary” means an insurance intermediary (as defined in Article 2.1(3) of the insurance distribution directive), an ancillary insurance intermediary (as defined in Article 2.1(4) of the insurance distribution directive) or a reinsurance intermediary (as defined in Article 2.1(5) of the insurance distribution directive);

• “investment firm” has the meaning given by Article 1.1 of the investor-compensation schemes directive;

• “investor” has the meaning given by Article 1.4 of the investor-compensation schemes directive;

• “investor-compensation schemes directive” means the Council and European Parliament Directive 97/9/EC on investor-compensation schemes M2;

• “relevant AIFM” means an EEA firm falling within paragraph 5(h) of Schedule 3 to the Act which—

  1. (a)

     is authorised by its home state regulator to provide services specified by Annex I to the alternative investment fund managers directive; and

  2. (b)

     is providing those services, or services specified by Article 6.4 of that directive (discretionary portfolio management and non-core services), in the United Kingdom;

• F7“relevant management company” means an EEA firm falling within paragraph 5(f) of Schedule 3 to the Act which—

  1. (a)

     is authorised by its home state regulator to provide services of the kind specified by F8Article 6.3 of the UCITS directive (management of portfolios of investments); and

  2. (b)

     is providing those services in the United Kingdom.

• F9“relevant mortgage intermediary” means a mortgage intermediary falling within paragraph 5(i) of Schedule 3 to the Act which is providing all or part of the credit intermediation activities set out in Article 4(5) of the mortgages directive or which is providing advisory services (as defined in Article 4(21) of the mortgages directive) in the United Kingdom;

• “UKAIF” has the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Regulations 2013.

For the purposes of section 224(4) of the Act (power to inspect documents held by Official Receiver), the following categories are prescribed—